Twitter C/D

The official label is still going out as part of the @TwitterBlue launch -- we are just focusing on government and commercial entities to begin with. What you saw him mention was the fact that we're not focusing on giving individuals the "Official" label right now.

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 9, 2022

im personally all for internet anonymity but for twitter its good for them if official sources are official, as far as randos prob doesnt make much difference

but if randos want it let them have it why not thats called customer service, having it be a profit center obvs corrupts the whole idea tho

the labels shd be "nob" for blue ticks and "mob" for the rest of us, its in the constitution in fancy C18 language (nobility vs mobility)

Yes Reddit has proven than even “moderated” anonymity is a failure.

$8chan roffle

idk anonymity is also extremely important for marginalized people (especially trans people) plus lots and lots of people who do not live in the USA. I've also heard a few nightmare anecdotes about getting verified by FB requiring you to upload passports and the like

yeah there are good legit reasons to be anon like safety for vulnerable people, and good non legit reasons like its nice and its internet, i dont think reddit really proves anything outside reddit sucks and maybe huge platforms suck (something proven by all huge platforms including and maybe especially facebook which requires real names)

Outside of Facebook I don’t think I’ve ever used a gendered username anywhere, and there’s a reason for that.

which is not to say that huge platforms dont have nice qualities too but lets be real how many serious genocide attempts have been promoted via facebook at this point

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Yes, excellent point. See also ethnicity, religion, and caste for last names.

gyac and lagoon both otm that FB puts the lie to non-anonymity being preventative of much

reddit seems to be moderately successful?

on the other hand I've heard rumblings that most of their new traffic is all porn

should also be noted that to some extent were all vulnerable to bad things happening re our names being tied to our posts whats the chance say the usa goes full fash in the next five years its not zero even tho im a cis white straight american male info worker doesnt mean i really want public posts next to my real name saying “ it is good too burn police stations lol”, thats a dramatic example but you could get fired lose yr health care etc over some fb bs too

Facebook has people posting blood and soil fascism attached to their real names, photos and places of employment.

― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12:51 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think Twitter anonymity is more "u know Miles Prower from Sonic the Hedgehog eats ass" type stuff

lmao it's happening already

Josh McDaniels is out as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/iS58wVVThK

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefterN0T) November 9, 2022

¡Nueva York, no me voy a ningún lado! ¡Estoy feliz de anunciar que renuncié con los yankees por 3 años más! #RepBX ________________________________________
New York, I’m not going anywhere! I’m happy to announce i’ve re-signed with the Yankees for 3 more years! #RepBx pic.twitter.com/jbgELEppHe

— Aroldis Chapman (@AroIdisChapman) November 9, 2022

Weird use of "renunciar" in that tweet.

Did he mean "me renuí"? Still doesn't sound right but closer.

I think he needs a new Spanish tweeter.

hah I zeroed in on that too, first clue it was fake

*me reuní

absolute fucking pandemonium. this is the end of this website pic.twitter.com/RhAK7VOEst

— adrian (@crawf34) November 9, 2022

The goal of Twitter DMs is to superset Signal

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022

love to superset signal

this is a good point. twitter's product development is slow in part because if they are required to follow an extremely pedantic process agreed with the FTC in order to settle with them. i'm thinking this is not what musk is doing.

By the way, is there anyone left at Twitter who remembers that the company is still under a pretty stringent FTC consent decree that has, you know, some requirements about launching new products & services and having a written plan about their security? https://t.co/ZjytSLUq1W pic.twitter.com/Wc1iJKeEEZ

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) November 9, 2022

unless the FTC has any actual teeth to enforce that decree, i don't think musk cares much about it - see his own agreement with the SEC to have an outside advisor pre-approve all tweets, which is also not what musk is doing

no i'm sure he doesn't, but the FTC does have enforcement capabilities.

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https://i.imgur.com/iLIrKLf.png

this might actually make twitter better now that i think about it

oh its better just not in the way twitter wants

big STYLESHEETS, COMMENCE CASCADING energy

maybe parody accounts get a little "✓ PARODY" badge? :)

no i'm sure he doesn't, but the FTC does have enforcement capabilities.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, November 9, 2022 4:55 PM (forty-eight minutes ago)

looks like the biggest fine to date is $5B against fb in 2019, which at the time was a landmark fine for them to levy. elon's down $44B in twitter and on the hook for $1B a year for a decade, what's another $5B to the richest man in the world

Update: https://t.co/fSYkpVJ1BD

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 9, 2022

There are two “Twitter Blue”, but one is more expensive than the other pic.twitter.com/040m6QRoYp

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) November 9, 2022

elon isn't afraid to let both plans compete, see what works, what fails

I'm sticking around here, this is more fun than twitter has been in ages

I am hear-by issuing a challenge to @AlanDersh. Streetbeefs, come get some Dersh. There can only be one dusty old pedophile attorney around these parts.

— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiulianiESQ) November 9, 2022

they should do the SA thing where you have to pay to change your avatar but can also pay to change other peoples avatars

ooooh ooooh ooooh
Twitter blue

Lmao that would actually make a decent amount of money

moving from $4.99 Blue to $7.99 Blue is the equivalent of graduating up from Gap to Banana Republic

What did he think was gonna happen pic.twitter.com/vtBuboWXDs

— Screamer Jim (@HeheWaitWhut) November 9, 2022

I got lotion on my dick rn

lmao

jerk brandon

Ya I’m ngl I did that shit

— O.J. Simpson (@ThaReaI0J32) November 9, 2022

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Ablue_verified&src=typed_query&f=top&pf=on

Everyone you follow who paid in one place for easy blocking

sadly that seems to only be Al Jazeera + for me.

why AJ+ isn't already verified, I do not know.

you know why

They may have paid for Twitter Blue, but AJ+ have long been verified. Here’s an archive.other snapshot from February, for example. Or am I misunderstanding?

https://web.archive.org/web/20220225101209/https://twitter.com/ajplus

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It’s only been a week but I feel like I was way off in my prediction that someone will surely acquire Twitter. It’s unreal how fast my Twitter timeline has devolved into crypto scam bullshit (even outside of this week’s crypto news).

I’m surprised they didn’t get fired already but this is bad for users. Mudge’s replacement and by all accounts much better at the job.

I've made the hard decision to leave Twitter. I've had the opportunity to work with amazing people and I'm so proud of the privacy, security, and IT teams and the work we've done.

I'm looking forward to figuring out what's next, starting with my reviews for @USENIXSecurity 😁

— Lea Kissner (@LeaKissner) November 10, 2022